Tattered Past

Friday, September 23, 2011

After I published my post on found poetry I realized I forgot to show the pictures of working on it.

That little tin is a gift card tin from Michael's. I love these tins. They come in very handy for lots of things; in this case a place to put all my words and phrases cut from magazines and books. Although I said I used a gluestick I actually used this Zig glue pen. These are great for applying just a bit of glue and being left in the car on a hot day doesn't seem to affect them (at least if they are in a bag in the trunk.) Those little scissors come with a cap and are great for travelling, too.

I did notice that I had way too many things to work with. I thought it would be good to spend an afternoon cutting words and phrases and have them all ready to go. But when it came to the poetry it was overwhelming (and even a small cough was disastrous.) I think if I wanted to work on just a poem again I would cut out things that inspired me that moment for the main part and perhaps use my tin for the secondary words. Make sense?

I have been inspired over and over to do these found poems, most recently, of course by Quinn's book. And now my blog has inspired somebody else. Find out more about that at Creative Carmelina. I always find Carmelina's blog inspiring and peaceful because she uses such calming colors.

7 comments:

If your words chuff away, put them on some very narrow strips of half tacky,or killed masking tape fastened sticky side up to your work board. The tape now comes in neat colors that are just begging to be used in an art project of their own.

Do you remember the magnetic words used for writing poetry on your 'fridge? I know someone who has a set, or perhaps two. You can also easily make your own giving you a customized vocabulary.

I have like twenty ZIGGIES in my supply collection. Everytime I'm out shopping, I'm thinking...am I almost out of the blue glue? am i? I'd better buy another one just be sure...because I never want to be caught in that creative and inspired moment...andohnoooooo...I'm out of glue!

showing the 'behind the scenes' really keeps things interesting! we want to see the mess.....the action...the creative storm!!!!

i love love love poems!i think i can do thisi,ve done it somehowthank you so much for reminding me of this, it could be so much fun and challenginf toobut now let's find old books to make poetry ;-)yes!

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